Africa-Press – Angola. Supreme Court advisory judge João Fuantoni announced this Monday in Luanda the postponement “sine die” of the trial of prosecutor Natasha Sulaia, initially scheduled in the Criminal Chamber of this institution.
According to the judge, the postponement is due to the impossibility of forming the collective court, given the justified absence of one of its deputies.
Court data indicate that the case in question is registered under number 16/20, in which the Public Prosecution Service is a participant, with the defendant Natasha Sulaia, accused of the crime of abuse of power.
Counselor judge João Fuantoni is the rapporteur, while judges Noberto Sodré and Inácio Paixão are deputy judges.
Speaking to the press, the defense lawyer, Claudino Pereira, was reserved regarding his constituent’s accusation, having said that it was necessary to wait for the trial to pronounce substantially.
“As for the accusation, I will not comment on anything, we will wait for the hearing”, he said.
However, the press learned from the manager of the company AGPV (manager of a condominium allegedly linked to the case), Ildefonso Massango, that this institution was injured in a dispute, resulting from a commercial partnership relationship, in which the then prosecutor Natasha Sulaia had intervention considered incorrect.
He referred that the condominium is an investment involving American companies, despite being under the management of AGPV.
“I was with one of the partners, who is Mr. Christopher (Sugrue), and we went to the condominium to get some documents to be kept because at the time there was a dispute between them”, he said without, however, specifying the other party involved.
According to Ildefonso Massango, the prosecutor Natasha Sulaia, who, at the time, claimed to be the daughter of General António Andrade, went to the condominium with police and replaced the security team on duty, claiming that her father owned the property, as well as tried to request a ban on leaving the country and an international arrest warrant from one of the partners in that investment.
“I saw the accusation and I believe it was brought by the fact that it tried to ask Mr. Christopher to leave the country and an international arrest warrant”, he explained to journalists, considering that the commercial partnership relationship could have been resolved in another way.
From April to date, 167 cases have been tried in the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court and 1,658 are pending, of the 1,825 existing since the entry into office of the new counselor judges, at the end of March.
The postponed trial would mark the return of trials in First Instance in the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court, since the case of former minister and deputy Manuel Rabelais.
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